In this section, we will share updates describing known issues, ongoing systemic changes, and configuration updates to Moodle. Please use the menu items to the left to navigate to different topical areas.
Powering hundreds of thousands of learning environments globally, Moodle is trusted by institutions and organisations large and small. Moodle's worldwide numbers across both academic and enterprise level usage makes it the world's most widely used learning platform.
With over 20 years of development guided by social constructionist pedagogy, Moodle delivers a powerful set of learner-centric tools and collaborative learning environments that empower both teaching and learning, while at the same time allowing teachers and trainers to customize their course according to their own preferred methods.
Moodle code is contributed to by hundreds of thousands of developers worldwide, and is shared via frequent releases.
| Release type | Frequency | Months | Timing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Major (eg. 3.x) | 6 monthly | April, and October | Weeks 17, and 43 of the year |
| Minor (Point) (eg. 3.x.y) | 2 monthly | February, April, June, August, October, December | Usually every 8 weeks |
At Brandeis we apply releases in between active academic terms, but security patches, bug fixes, and plugin updates are applied during weekly maintenance. You can subscribe to notifications regarding Brandeis Moodle service events here: https://status.brandeis.edu/.
Being open source software, the organization behind Moodle publishes the Moodle Tracker, where they record and manage all issues related to Moodle and related systems. At Brandeis we don't run the most recently released Moodle software, we tend to stay a few points behind, in order to allow bugs to be addressed. While rare, occasionally we run into either a known Moodle bug, or an issue where a third-party tool has not yet implemented a fix for a newly found integration issue. This collection of pages document such issues.
Occasionally an implementation choice will be reported by end users as an issue, so we will make an effort to document such use-cases here as well. For example, in LATTE at one point there were eleven different tools that provided Polling functionality - in our new Moodle implementation we have limited Polling to just a few for efficiency and support reasons. If enough end users submit a ticket request that they can't find "Polling tool X," documentation will be added to assist in responding to tickets. Additionally, Announcements and News shared about updates, upgrades, and the Moodle Implementation Project are collected here: https://www.brandeis.edu/moodle4-lms/news/index.html